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Environmental Law Alert Blog
Through our Environmental Law Alert blog, West Coast keeps you up to date on the latest developments and issues in environmental law. This includes:
- proposed changes to the law that will weaken, or strengthen, environmental protection;
- stories and situations where existing environmental laws are failing to protect the environment; and
- emerging legal strategies that could be used to protect our environment.
If you have an environmental story that we should hear about, please e-mail Andrew Gage. We welcome your comments on any of the posts to this blog – but please keep in mind our policies on comments.
Treaty 8 First Nations have taken their struggle against the proposed Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River into the international arena by
A shocking story from Mark Hume in the Globe and Mail on June 12th reported on a BC Government study on widespread non-compliance with the BC Water Act:
A recent story in the Abbotsford News caught my eye - Environment Industry Association critical of $20,000 fine for Abbotsford man. The story relates to the sentencing of Ed Ilnicki for three charges related to
We’re most of the way through the Spring 2011 sitting of BC’s Legislature – the first under Premier Christy Clark and Opposition Leader Adrian Dix. What have our elected officials been doing for the environment?
Actually, given how short the sitting, there’s been a surprising number of environment-related laws introduced.
On May 4, 2011 the BC Supreme Court released its decision in Friends of Davie Bay v. Province of British Columbia.
Yesterday the Mayor and Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) released a letter written by their lawyer, Don Lidstone, demanding that a controversial asphalt plant located next to the residential neighbourhood of Chea
This blog post, by Douglas Schoch, is the second in a series of guest blog posts from UBC students to be published over the coming month. West Coast Environmental Law is currently hosting UBC students in a clinical Environmental Law Workshop. Writing a blog post is a required assignment for the students.
This blog post, by Rachel Barsky, is the first in a series of guest blog posts from UBC students to be published over the coming month. West Coast Environmental Law is currently hosting UBC students in a clinical Environmental Law Workshop. Writing a blog post is a required assignment for the students.
February’s grey weather did not deter the more than 150 people who